Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This room is furnished in imitation black walnut and is kept in the stiffest, most inhospitable good order. There are stiff white pillow-shams pinned on enormous pillows standing up endwise at the head of the bed, and each "sham" has two creases, so that the "sham" may be folded in four and laid on a chair when one goes to bed. A stiff white bed-cover (a wedding gift to Mrs. Butterfield from her mother) is on the bed, with three creases, one from end to end and two across, so that it too may be folded...
...students at Bowdoin are becoming frivolous and frolicsome. We learn from the Orient that last Friday morning it was discovered that the seats in several recitation rooms had been decorated with a fresh coat of black paint. Quite a number of the classes were adjourned, on account of the artistic efforts of a few unsalted...
...have never seen a more complete collection of animal painters: Rosa Bonheur, Peyrol Bonheur, Verboeckboven, Van Marcke, Voltz, Burnier, Ceramano, Jacque and Schenck, master and pupil, all are well represented. Rosa Bonheur's picture is small but inimitable; little variety of color but strong and natural, - a sheep, a black one at that, covered up in a wealth of green grass. There is one of the earlier attempts of Van Marcke. It is not marked by that hard, firm finish which his later works possess...
Bonfanti, who was black-haired, voluptuously pretty, and had eyes that almost spoke, fell in love, just when her success was greatest, with the petted scion of an aristocratic family - a young man with plenty of money and a social position that might well be envied. But he gave up all this for love of the Italian girl, and, despite the entreaties of his family and the certainty of social ostracism, married her, and took her from the stage...
...subject of "Cutting in all its Branches," a justification from the papers of the Polyglot Club, once a famous institution of the college: "We cut our teeth in the cradle-cut our fingers and capers while children-cut a figure in our teens-and, at last, Atropos, with her black cap and Damascus scissors, cuts short the thread of our existence. Take almost any case that you choose, and you find cutting almost without exception the safest course." And so the changes are rung on "cuts" for a full page more...